India: Today’s news in pictures

Jan 03, 2018 16:44 IST

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Protesters block trains at Thane railway station. Train services were badly affected in Mumbai after rail rokos on all three corridors of the Central Railway as well as on the Western Railway during a state-wide bandh called by Dalit groups on Wednesday. (Praful Gangurde / HT Photo)

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PM Narendra Modi (R), Union Minister holding Law and Justice and Electronics and Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad (L) along with Union Finance Minister and Minister of Corporate Affairs Arun Jaitley, during the BJP Parliamentary Party Meeting in New Delhi on Wednesday. The triple talaq bill has been tabled in the Rajya Sabha with the opposition parties, including Congress creating a ruckus in the House while Arun Jaitley today accused the Congress of “double standards”. (Sonu Mehta / HT Photo)

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Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) patriarch Lalu Prasad Yadav returns to Birsa Munda Jail under heavy security after attending the special CBI court in the fodder scam case, in Ranchi on Wednesday. According to reports, the court will now pronounce the sentence for Prasad and others on Thursday. (Parwaz Khan / HT Photo)

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Visitors gather at the ticket office of the Taj Mahal in Agra on January 3, 2018. The Archaeological Survey of India is likely to restrict the number of tourists visiting the Taj Mahal to 40,000 daily, and put a three-hour cap on each ticket holder, in a bid to preserve the heritage site. (Dominique Faget / AFP)

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National Conference and Congress MLAs protested inside the J&K Legislative assembly and staged a walkout in the middle of the governor’s address during the budget session in Jammu on Wednesday. ( Nitin Kanotra / HT Photo)

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Security personnel standing near the MiG-29 K aircraft of the navy which caught fire after it skidded off the runway in Goa’s Dabolim International Airport on Wednesday. (PTI)

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India news in pictures --a roundup of today’s top news across the country from Dalit protests in several parts of Mumbai to the triple talaq bill been tabled in Rajya Sabha.